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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Yeah this feels totally broken on my M1 Pro running Ventura.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Yup, there was so much excitement around the free desktop as a promising future for computing. I miss it! And I always appreciated your contributions. Now we all use unbelievably locked-down mobile devices, nobody even knows what files and
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
I noticed this yesterday. I've been using Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox as my primary browser for over 20 years. They've made some questionable calls, sure, but most of the recent things that have bothered people
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
No, you can't.
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
The rules are pretty clear that you can only trade resource cards. When they say things like "However, you cannot give away cards, or trade matching resources (“trade” 3 ore for 1 ore, for example)" and "You cannot trade or g
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
IMHO, Season 1 is very strong, but Michael O'Hare's acting can be a bit cringey. I hate to speak ill of him, knowing now a little of what he was going through at the time, but still... That being said, I've tried to get into
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
Agreed. NSAIDs are contraindicated for me based on chronic health issues and related medications I have to take, so acetaminophen is the only OTC option I have. It very obviously _does_ work on multiple pain sources. It would be nice if it
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
Yeah, I'd be prefer that as well. But I understand why it might be harder to accomplish.
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
This is what Microsoft does, basically. Each month, $10,000 is donated to some project. Anyone who has contributed to any open source repo during that month is eligible to vote. There's a good nomination system, too. The write-ups for
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
I'm about 40 and I don't know anyone whose mom or dad is on Twitter. They're all on Facebook still. Teenagers and even 20-somethings are already a lost cause for Twitter. They're on TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. And
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
In my circles I'm seeing mass exodus. It's not just the tinkerers and the anarchists. I'm not surprised about the uptake in the open source community, after all I remember identi.ca being a lovely network for GNOME back in th
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
You understand there is no central authority for this, though, right? Many instances are growing, and account creation is a per-instance concept. The instance in the article is relatively small but it's impacted by activity coming from
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
"By our best understanding, our major changes are not wanted by the Mastodon project, hence maintaining this fork instead of trying to commit the changes to Mastodon." https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
My first time seeing it too, it really does look appealing! I am using Scrivener's very generous Nano demo this year ( https://www.literatureandlatte.com/nanowrimo ). Free from Oct 15 - Dec 7, and at the end of that you
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
My generous interpretation is that dad needs full-time care that the family can't provide in-house. For example, alzheimer's and dementia patients often have very particular needs.
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
Ugh, get off my lawn! But yeah I've seen this too, this is where it turns from hostile to truly evil.
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
It's hostile because it removes context that can help understand the content better, and because it's typically done as an engagement trick to aid the author and their "brand". Feel free to disagree, but I don't thi
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
The trend to remove dates from blog posts is problematic for just this reason (as well as being reader-hostile).
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
Do you really believe that the majority of software engineers were "hacking on computers at age 13"? Can we stop pretending that everyone coding for a living is a passionate embodiment of the hacker ethos? Even thinking of myself
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
Yup. Even the "What's new in AppKit?" talk pushed using SwiftUI for things like Settings due to controls only available in SwiftUI.
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
It may just not be your game, but I suggest giving it a few days. There are definitely some tracks where I feel the same as you, but this happens to be one where I got it on my first try. Another aspect of the game is the guessing itself. I
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
Why would this be necessary to explain spread when COVID is aerosolized on every exhale?
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
When I say "the runtime", I'm referring to everything that would be bundled into a published .NET program. The base class libraries, the bootstrapper, etc. There is no telemetry here. Yes, if you download a .NET Runtime distr
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
> However, presumably PowerShell requires at least the .NET Runtime if not the .NET SDK, doesn't it? Nope, these days .NET programs (like PowerShell) bundle the runtime. But even if they did a lighter distribution that depended on t
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
TIL! Thanks!
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
> And since it relies on .NET, that also requires its own separate opt-out for its telemetry. Building a program with .NET does NOT cause that program to send telemetry to Microsoft. You're thinking of the .NET SDK itself. Using Pow
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by sandyarmstrong 4y ago
If I know what I want to watch, the Netflix UI is perfect. Every other service's UI makes it surprisingly difficult to find and watch the next episode of "thing I've been watching every night for the past few weeks". Als
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by sandyarmstrong 5y ago
Yeah, you can just block ##div[aria-label*="Trending"] in uBlock. I believe sponsored tweets are already blocked by default. Credit to https://twitter.com/anaisbetts/status/1494340895495184392
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by sandyarmstrong 5y ago
I had some upper division math classes that were offered for both undergrad and grad credits. I enjoyed the classes, but one thing I noticed was that the teacher seemed to be under some pressure to ensure the grad students passed. They didn
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by sandyarmstrong 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Friedman

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